All posts for the day September 13th, 2005

Some of these are simply playing politics.
Some of them are committed leftists, for whom any increase in freedom is a disaster directly contradicting their self-appointed position as “the smart people” in a herd of sheeple.
Some of them simply don’t have access to actual Iraqi voices, and have to get their news through CNN, etcetera, whose business depends upon reporting the news in the worst possible light.

To the people in this third category, allow me to link here the remarks of the Prime Minister of Iraq, from his press conference today with the President.

For example:

In the name of the Iraqi people, I say to you, Mr. President, and to the glorious American people, thank you, thank you.
Thank you because you have liberated us from the worst kind of dictatorship. Our people suffered too much from this worst kind of dictatorship. The signal is mass graves with hundred thousand of Iraqi innocent children and women, young and old men. Thank you.
And thanks to the United States, there are now 50 million Muslims in Afghanistan and Iraq liberated by your courageous leadership and decision to liberate us, Mr. President.
….To those in America and other countries still ask if war of liberation in Iraq it was the right decision. I say, “Please, please come to Iraq to visit the mass graves, to see what happened to Iraqi people, and to see what’s now going on in Iraq.”
To those who talk of stability, I say, “Saddam imposed the stability of the mass graves.”

Read the rest.
UPDATE: The Lexis-Nexis links seemed to Michelangelo’d for some reason R Replaced with whitehouse.gov.

Top Ten Reasons why that Taebo Chick(tm) is going to wipe the walls with all you dojo darlings:

10. After Taebo Chick kicks your ass, she's going to get the hell out of there, rather than mouthing off and turning the entire biker bar against her.
9. Taebo Chick doesn't think ten reps is enough to know how to kick.
8. Taebo Chick goes to class to train, not to hang out in a circle jerk being told how dangerous she is.
7. By definition, Taebo Chick understands that conditioning counts.
6. Taebo Chick doesn't have to be bitched at constantly about slacking off and poor form.
5. If Taebo Chick realizes she has to fight you, she's going to keep her pumps on and use them to kick your teeth in, not dramatically remove them and drop into a kung fu stance.
4. Taebo Chick recognizes poseur tricks like bowing to a real-world opponent for the candy-ass dick moves they are, and would never spend a half hour fantasizing about it out loud with other Taebo Chicks.
3. Nobody's ever seen a Taebo Chick whine about doing a hundred reps.
2. The Taebo Chick doesn't think that she can beat you up with her chi.

Involving major international projects, like, a cement plant and a few grain silos.

Now, I’ve actually seen some drawings for grain silos. They are a serious piece of engineering, given the threat of explosion. But major bi-national project? The best and brightest of Syria can’t build a silo?
There’s clearly more afoot. I’ll be curious to know how many of those Iranian engineers are going to have dual passports, and heavy contact with Hezbollah…